Word: yoshi
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...Yoshi Akabane (4) hits the ball softly, doesn't play a fiercely agressive game, and waits for his opponent to make errors. Saturday he was able to outwait Amherst's Al Wilde, 6-4, 6-2, in the day's longest singles match. Yoshi doesn't look like a racquet whiz, but as one court side observer put it, "He beats more good tennis players that...
...father, Emperor Hirohito, is Japan's most famous Sunday marine microbiologist; his brother, Prince Yoshi, is a cytologist; and his son, Prince Hiro, is a confirmed admirer of the elephants at the zoo. With science all around, Crown Prince Akihito himself is no slouch when it comes to ichthyology. He has just finished a treatise on the shoulder blades of the goby fish, and used his 30th birthday press conference to announce a tonic devised to restore the appetite of his wife, Princess Michiko, still ailing after a March abortion. The "particularly effective delicacy," said the prince, consists...
...long out of short pants. Generally overlooked, however, is a royal prince whose line stretches back to 660 B.C.. and whose family has announced that he is looking for "an appropriate girl from a decent home." He is 27-year-old Prince Yoshi of Japan...
...tone is better suited to a tavern. Almost any place would have been better than Boylston Hall; my own choice would have been Cronin's. But Ted Morris, who directed the play (the program notes modestly proclaim, "The unnatural stiffness of the occasion is Ted Morris's fault"), Yoshi Shimizu, who made "all the sights for sure eyes" (i.e. the set, the costumes, and the props), and Bill Wilder, who composed "the heard melodies" transformed each of the obstacles which nature had put in their way into an advantage. The result was an effortless and delightful stylization...
...Nobusuke's turn to follow his father's footsteps as a yoshi. A marriage was arranged for him with his cousin Yoshiko, the daughter of his father's brother. Although the marriage did not take place for another seven years (Yoshiko was only eleven at the time), Nobusuke resumed his father's name of Kishi and was stricken from the Sato family register...